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Re: Help! Measurement Question

Subject: Re: Help! Measurement Question
From: Barb Miller <millerb -at- TCPLINK -dot- NREL -dot- GOV>
Date: Mon, 19 Jun 1995 07:37:53 MDT

Debra asks


I'm trying to perfect the following in a sentence that appears in a
brochure soon to go to press:

"thicknesses less than 0.001 inches (0.0254 millimeters)"

Since the measurement refers to a fraction/decimal less than one, do I
write "inch" (for one ten-thousandths of an inch) or "inches"??

The answer is inch (millimeter)--singular (you say half inch, not half
inches).

Can't cite a source, tho.

Barb Miller
National Renewable Energy Laboratory
millerb -at- tcplink -dot- nrel -dot- gov

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